Exhaled droplets due to talking and coughing
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Exhaled droplets due to talking and coughing.
Respiratory infections can be spread via 'contact' with droplets from expiratory activities such as talking, coughing and sneezing, and also from aerosol-generating clinical procedures. Droplet sizes predominately determine the times they can remain airborne, the possibility of spread of infectious diseases and thus the strategies for controlling the infections. While significant inconsistencie...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of The Royal Society Interface
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1742-5689,1742-5662
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0388.focus